Christmas Prayer Across World Marks Prince of Peace Day
The Christian world celebrates Christmas with gifts and feasting as troops in Korea and refugees abroad receive aid. War weary leaders urge peace while pilgrims fill Bethlehem and Jerusalem’s Mandelbaum Gate opens to permit cross border visits. President Truman lights the White House tree and calls for brotherhood among all people and enemies.
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Associated Press
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Korea
United Nations
White House
Washington
Truman
Brotherhood of Man
God
Vicious Fighting Shatters Calm on Korean Front
Christmas dawn on the Korean front brought heavy hand to hand fighting as about 200 North Korean Reds overran a U N position near a height called Lake The Gook's Castle. Allied counterattacks two hours later drove the Reds back in another fierce clash.
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Seoul
Korea
U. N
Lake the Gook
Grandma Bank Bandit Caught
A well dressed woman identified as Ethel Arata, 52, of Monrovia, was arrested in Arcadia, California, while attempting to rob a bank with a toy pistol. She admitted robbing two Los Angeles banks in recent weeks and is suspected in a third. Police report she netted nearly four thousand dollars across three robberies. She cried and refused to provide her maiden name, saying her brother is too prominent.
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Arcadia
Calif
Los Angeles
Grandma
Neil Anderson
Ethel Arata
Monrovia
Sailor Granted Divorce From Marine Sergeant Wife
Controlman 2/c Archie LaFleur was granted a divorce from Rose Ann LaFleur after he said she railed at him incessantly. Judge Louis Bunge noted that marrying a sergeant invites contributory negligence and approved the dissolution of the marriage in Spokane.
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Spokane
Louis Bunge
Controlman 2
Archie LaFleur
Rose Ann LaFleur
GI Christmas mail totals in Europe top 13 million pounds
Heidelberg Germany reports U S Army postal officials in Europe have handled 13 million pounds of Christmas mail since November 1. The average GI received just over 30 pounds of packages letters and cards home this Yuletide. The average soldier sent home a little less than that.
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Heidelberg
Germany
Europe
U. S. Army
French Liner Crew Barred By New Act
New York dispatch reports 272 crewmen from the Liberte denied shore leave under the McCarran-Walter Act as the ship docked for Christmas. Of 974 crew and 829 passengers, most crewmen sailed here for 25 years but faced the law, remaining aboard while holidays glowed in New York. Union delegate Francois la Gouardere said the men accepted their fate without discussion of the act.
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New York
Liberte
Here
Francois la Gouardere
Communists Join in Yule Celebration on a Battlefront
From Seoul to Kumhwa Hills Christmas is marked with carols and banners as Reds hold a ceasefire announce by loudspeakers and Allied troops observe prayers. On Sniper Ridge and Western Front, firing dwindles to allow festive displays amid cold, snow, and ongoing patrols.
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Seoul
Korea
Kumhwa
Weather Summary: Cold with Clearing Later
Clear to partly cloudy and continued cold through Thursday and Thursday night. Temperatures range from -15 to 15 with a -10 Friday morning low. Airport readings show 16 to 14, School of Mines -2 to 16, trace precipitation. West of divide: fog in valleys, high 20 to 30. East of divide: fair, fog patches early, high 20 to 35.
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Santa Delivers in Frosty Butte Weather
Mining City residents woke to sub zero Christmas Eve as Santa and Rudolph braved frigid air. Temperatures fell to minus 14 by Wednesday midnight with a near zero reading by Christmas Eve, while daily highs barely rose above 15.
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Rudolph
St. Nick
Butte
Mining City
Air Mighty
School of Mines
Free Field Marshal List Released on Medical Parole
American authorities freed former Field Marshal Wilhelm List on medical parole from a life prison term for war crimes set in 1948. List was convicted by an American court for mass murder and illegal executions in Yugoslavia during World War II.
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Bonn
Wilhelm List
List
Yugoslavia
Eight Die in Headon Collision Near Indianapolis
A tractor trailer and a car collided head on three miles south of Indianapolis causing a blaze that killed eight people including a young mother and her four daughters. Local authorities reported the fatalities and began investigations into the crash.
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Indianapola, Miss
U.P
Here
Death Toll Discrepancy In Cham Pollion Ship Disaster
In Beirut the French Embassy updated the death toll to 16 while Lebanon’s Security Department cited 27. No agreed total for crew and passengers aboard the 12,546 ton French liner Cham pollion.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Lebanese Security Department
City of Butte Plans Joyous Christmas Observance
Butte residents prepare a Christmas celebration centered on peace on earth as they recall the birth of Christ. Amid the Korean War, the community keeps faith with prayers for harmony while sharing merry wishes and festive greetings, with continued observance on the holiday’s page 12.
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Christ Child
Prince of Peace
Bethlehem
Butte
Pilgrims Return to Bethlehem as War-Torn Land Eases
Bethlehem witnesses crowds visiting the birthplace of Jesus as Arab Legion and Israeli border guards relax frontier rules for Easter pilgrimages. About 2,500 travelers from Jerusalem pass guardposts and barbed wire that have marked the 1948 armistice era, with some worshipping in Nazareth and Jerusalem.
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Bethlehem
Jesus Christ
Jordan
Arab Legion
Palestine
Jerusalem
Nazareth
Consular Corps
United Nations Armistice Staff
Montana farm income totals 550 million on crops and livestock
Montana's Department of Agriculture reports total farm income for the year ended June 30 at 550.046 million. Crops contributed 311.248 million, led by 186.264 million from wheat and 78.688 million from hay, with barley and sugar beets also listed. Livestock yielded 238.798 million, including cattle at 163.8 million and dairying at 19.175 million.
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Helena
Montana
Department of Agriculture
Alfred R. Anderson
Hearings on Korean War to Open January Eight
House armed services committee will begin hearings January 8 on the world military situation with emphasis on the Korean war deadlock Rep Dewey Short said. He will head the committee in the new Congress and expects Gen Omar N Bradley and other Joint Chiefs of Staff members to testify in a general briefing on the cold war with Communism.
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Washington
U.P
House Armed Services Committee
Dewey Short
Missouri Republican
Congress
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Eisenhower
Short
Joint Chiefs
Former taxi driver kills policeman in Jacksonville shooting
A 33 year old former taxi driver, John Horton McVeigh of Los Angeles, allegedly wrestled Patrolman Robert Tucker’s revolver during transport to police headquarters and shot him. Tucker died en route to the hospital.
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Jacksonville
Fla
U.P
John Horton McVeigh
Los Angeles
Robert Tucker
Tucker
McVeigh
Charity Crusade Urged by Pope On Christmas Eve
Pope Pius XII urged a worldwide crusade of charity for the poor on Christmas Eve. In his 14th annual message broadcast in 24 languages, he called for a flood of relief, leveling of wealth gaps, and solidarity across East and West against mechanized society.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Man Rescued From Gasoline Filled Railroad Tank Car
In Billings fellow workers braved gasoline fumes to rescue Herbert H. Bentz who collapsed inside a gasoline filled rail tank car. Allen Gunderson crawled into the car held by a rope, then two others pulled Bentz out as they used artificial respiration to revive him.
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Billings
Herbert H. Bentz
Allen Gunderson
Bentz
Gunderson
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